Vulnerability · CVE-2025-53729
Improper access control in Azure File Sync allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Published Aug 12, 2025 · catalog updated Feb 26, 2026 · Microsoft Azure File Sync
Check this week
CVE-2025-53729 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 30.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Microsoft Azure File Sync.
Gaps on this record
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- High7.8
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 30.00%
- Remediation
- Version ranges on file
- Affected products
- vendor Microsoft Azure File Sync 1.0.0 <18.3.0.0
Improper access control in Azure File Sync allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- vendor Microsoft Azure File Sync 1.0.0 <18.3.0.01.0.0 <18.3.0.0
How to fix CVE-2025-53729
Recommended remediation
Affected version ranges suggest a fixed boundary. Verify against the vendor advisory for your release.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2025-53729 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 30.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Microsoft Azure File Sync.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with Microsoft Azure File Sync 1.0.0 <18.3.0.0 1.0.0 <18.3.0.0. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 30.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Aug 12, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
Improper access control in Azure File Sync allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Feb 26, 2026 · EUVD
Updated
Improper access control in Azure File Sync allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Sources
- EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-24375
Improper access control in Azure File Sync allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Feb 26, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.